Bilbo’s Eleventy-one

Jabba the Hut said:

Hello there folks! Re 9/11, thought I would relate a piece of information I discovered just a few days ago. While watching "The Fellowship of the Ring", I was struck by the fact that Bilbo Baggins was celebrating his 111th. birthday. Finding this odd, and not being sure if it was just a Hollywood invention, I decided to check it out. So I took out my dusty copy of "The Lord of the Rings" to verify. And, sure enough, Bilbo was in fact throwing a party on his "eleventy-one" birthday. Okay, nothing unusual so far. But on leafing through the pages, I noticed that the party was taking place in September! "That very month was September, and as fine as you could ask". Now, isn't that weird? My curiosity piqued, I continued checking and came to the back of the book where Tolkien had included a calender of events pertaining to Middle Earth. And guess what? Bilbo Baggins was celebrating his 111th.birthday in September in 3001, exactly one thousand years after the 11th.September 2001! Well, well, what do you know! Isn't that a strange coincidence?